As a freelance reporter, I enjoy covering stories about people, social issues, culture and the law. I developed a particular interest in legal affairs and after looking into a case against an Illinois death row inmate named Aaron Patterson. I’ve since written stories about lawsuits related to human trafficking, wrongful convictions, political asylum and a billion-dollar trademark infringement case involving Stolichnaya vodka. 

But I also enjoy telling the unexpected human stories: The mother who lost her son on September 11th and who has since befriended the mother of an al Qaeda terrorist, the real estate agent who rescued the abandoned archive of famed jazz singer Maxine Sullivan, and the world-renown butoh dancers who quietly run a San Francisco sushi restaurant, to name a few.

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